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Okay, okay, it started as a joke. The front room at HomeShop is so cold that nobody wants to work in there, so how can we use it? For a permanent ice sculpture display, said a voice from Hokkaido, which is famous for its huge ice castles during Snow Fest in Sapporo. Well, it’s not that cold, but maybe we could heat it up, and declare victory over our old enemy, Beijing winter? And so the Melting Ice Festival transpired.

Perhaps some clarification is in order to explain what happens in the game Associalization (which, looking in the rear-view, should technically actually be called Asocialization, but was subject to an asinine Freudian slip), partly because game nights will become a monthly tradition at HomeShop (says the erstwhile Dust Bar proprietor). Stay tuned and join next time!

Rules work this way:

There are a large amount of cards with drawings on them. Each player gets a certain number of cards, for example 6. Players’ cards are hidden from one another. The player whose turn it is chooses a concept, word, sound, sentence etc. for one particular card, announces it to all players, and places the card face-down. Their intention is for at least one player to correctly guess their card, but at least one player who does not correctly identify. Other players check their own hand for cards that could possibly correspond, and put these down. The cards are shuffled, and finally flipped to reveal the images. Then each player votes on which card they think is the the originally chosen one, and points are allotted depending on the distribution of votes (3 points to the player whose turn it is, if at least one but not every player chooses their card; 2 points to the player who chooses the correct card; 1 point to the player who has fooled others with an “incorrect” card.)

After a lengthy break that has seen the dawning of the dragon year and some promising signs of spring, it is past due to begin meeting again.

We start the season dazed, disoriented, fresh, with the question “Are we sane?” as asked by the German Jewish psychoanalyst, sociologist and philosopher Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) who had been highly involved in what is known as The Frankfurt School.

We will be reading the first 2 chapters (in English and 中文，最后!!) from the book “The Sane Society” /《健全社会》(1955).